Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called the Middle Kingdom, a self-absorbed and xenophobic empire. Its massive indifference to the outside world remained in place for millenniums, through dynasties and revolutions. Until, suddenly, the communists in Beijing cast aside their Marxist zeal and set their country on the road to capitalism. Only 15 years later, China -- with a fifth of the globe's population -- is a candidate superpower, more involved in international life than ever before in its history. The impact of its emergence is so profound that scholars are predicting relations between China and the U.S. will shape the world in the 21st century...
Another important issue facing us is the need to replace discredited ideologies. Is untrammelled capitalism the only way? The Marxist critique of capitalism cannot be completely discounted even though its alternative ideology crashed and burned spectacularly in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union...
...band of former contra guerrillas closed around them in a tight cordon. Training automatic weapons on the hostages, the rightist rebels announced the price for freedom: dismissal of Sandinista army chief Humberto Ortega and top presidential aide Antonio Lacayo, viewed as too easy on the country's ousted Marxist rulers...
...right-wing p.c. may be the opposition to Tara J. O'Toole, Clinton's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Energy. O'Toole's nomination has been held up by two Republican Senators because -- and follow this closely, please -- she belongs to a study group that once had the name Marxist Feminist Group. The group, which meets about three times a year, changed its name to Northeast Feminist Scholars years before O'Toole joined it. The Administration wrote the Senate that O'Toole "has never endorsed Marxist theory, nor has she ever had the impression that any other members of N.F.S...
...climax of an election week that had tipped the natural order of things upside down. The arrogant old conservatives of the L.D.P. lost the majority they had used to run the government unchallenged -- and almost unsupervised -- for 38 years. At the same time, the permanent and futile opposition, the Marxist-oriented Social Democrats, lost almost half their seats and slid further toward irrelevance. Both parties suffered their worst electoral showing ever...